Quotes About Wealth

If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!

The key to happiness is not being rich; it's doing something arduous and creating something of value and then being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor.

I just really thought about it and decided I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. And I think it's really madness to risk your body, risk your well-being and risk your happiness for money.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

Happiness does not depend upon a full pocketbook, but upon a mind full of rich thoughts and a heart full of rich emotions.

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don't necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others

Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.

Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.

He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.

our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.

Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.

Riches may not bring happiness, but neither does poverty.

Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

Money doesn't make you happy, but it gives a zone of comfort around you.

After initial needs are met—enough food, shelter, comfort—there is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.

Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.

Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has had very little success with either one.